Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates

Synopsis

They needed hot dates. They got hot messes.

Mike and Dave are young, adventurous, fun-loving brothers who tend to get out of control at family gatherings. When their sister Jeanie reveals her Hawaiian wedding plans, the rest of the Stangles insist that the brothers bring respectable dates. After placing an ad on Craigslist, the siblings decide to pick Tatiana and Alice, two charming and seemingly normal women. Once they arrive on the island, however, Mike and Dave realize that their companions are ready to get wild and party.

Genre

If it’s true that every generation gets the “Wedding Crashers” it deserves, then millennials have finally gotten some definitive proof that they’re doing alright. Starting with a timeless premise — young people are stupid — and spinning it into a broad, crass, and relentlessly amusing mid-summer surprise, “Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates” may not be the first Apatow-era comedy about twentysomethings coming to grips with the fact that they won’t live forever (and it’s certainly not the deepest, as it lingers in your memory for about as long as a Snapchat), but it might just be one of the funniest.

Successfully acts as a vacuum for the considerable talent of Adam Devine, Zac Efron and Anna Kendrick; and confirms my suspicion that Aubrey Plaza was merely written well on Parks and Rec, and is quite attractive. This is wholly unfunny, perhaps the most disappointingly bland script I've seen in a while given the considerable talent that signed on. There must just be so few genuinely talented comedic writers in the studio system right now, apparently all working for the Seth Rogens and James Francos of the world, because I could write this. It's just appalling. Loud, gratuitously explicit and shallow in nature; despite it's frequent attempts to generate sympathy for the "rut" these people are in. I only watched this as a relief from the absurd amount of horror I've been watching, and this was without a doubt the scariest of them all.